How To Keep Wood Floors From Squeaking. If that doesnt stop the noise locate the squeaky floorboard from below. Another way to stop shoe squeaking is by rubbing the bottom with sandpaper.
Sometimes floor joists shrink warp or decay. Keeping your home consistently between 35-55 relative humidity is the best way to protect your wood floors from shrinking expanding cupping cracking squeaking or gapping. Get the facts about how to fix a squeaky floor here.
Once finished floors are installed it can be an enormous challenge to fix squeaky floors.
Put a Shim into the Gap. Locate the source of the squeaking. Keeping your home consistently between 35-55 relative humidity is the best way to protect your wood floors from shrinking expanding cupping cracking squeaking or gapping. See below for a shopping list and toolsSUBSCRIBE to This Old House.
